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Elsewhere in this thread, people are discussing a potentially-credible (but maybe you disagree) report on this from Gergely Orosz that does not paint this as "only the 3 senior executives".

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1587042365084209153?...

> I talked with an engineering manager who was at Twitter for 5+ years, and got laid off on Sunday "for cause". They were too exhausted from working over the weekend to talk longer: they first need to sleep.

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I don't understand why so many people celebrate when Elon treats his underlings like trash. Is it because people hate Twitter and think if you work there you deserve this? Is it because they want to have Elon's level of power and fame where the rules don't apply to them? Something else?

Because the aggrieved aren’t satisfied only by Elon taking over twitter and taking it in a different direction, they also believe that those currently at twitter deserve harsh punishment for whatever role they had in twitter.

Correct.

Imagine if this was Ellison, HN would be going bonkers. Now that it is musk, lot of comments saying it is fine and dandy.

The cruelty is the point with authoritarians.

Also one perennial observation with authoritarian-friendly people is that in their dog-eat-dog fantasy they are the badass warlord sitting atop a pile of bones rather than the nameless goon that lies at the bottom of the bonepile.

All of the above, plus a fair bit of delusion. The amount of people I've seen pretending to be engineers in order to normalize the most ridiculous things he says or does has been growing and when pressed they often just vanish or stop responding.

That said, should Twitter eventually fall apart it will never be the fault of Musk. It will be because insiders preventing his vision, or the government blocked him, or any number of excuses.

Hasn’t it been a popular topic on here of how bloated Twitter’s staff seems to be given how little the platform has apparently changed over the years? Not taking a stance on that, I don’t know, but to that cohort of commenters this probably seems like victory for common sense.

Probably the same reason people watch drama TV and soaps. It's entertainment

But why are they cheering for the villain?

Loads of people like negative drama. Housewives, Love is Blind, 90 day fiance are all full of really terrible shitty people.

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